Lasting Knowledge Quotes

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

People perish. Books are immortal.

... knowledge must continually be renewed by ceaseless effort, if it is not to be lost. It resembles a statue of marble which stands in the desert and is continually threatened with burial by the shifting sand. The hands of service must ever be at work, in order that the marble continue to lastingly shine in the sun. To these serving hands mine shall also belong.

Knowledge is dangerous. Once you know something, you can't get rid of it. You have to carry it. Always.

Once you know some things, you can't unknow them. It's a burden that can never be given away.

The idea of trying to create things that last - forever knowledge - has guided my work for a long time now.

We cannot pursue a classical and Christian education as a fad. We are not purchasing intellectual hula hoops for the kids.